Technical Data / Specifications

With the ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost DirectCU II OC you get a factory overclocked card with a custom PCB cooled by a DirectCU II cooler. The ASIC quality measured on our sample was 71.7 % which is about average.
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Looking at the clock speeds we see that the GPU runs at 1'020 MHz with a typical boost of 1'085 MHz, 52 MHz higher than the reference model. There are only three cards that feature higher clocks you can find in Europe. If you'd like to find them, check out our market overview: the SuperClocked from EVGA, the iChill HerculeZ 2000 from Inno3D and the OC from Gigabyte. Like most other manufacturers no factory overclocking has been made on the GDDR5 memory, therefore the clocks remain at 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz effective) following nVidia's recommendations.

nVidia GeForce	GTX 660	ASUS GTX 650 Ti Boost DC2OC	GTX 650 Ti Boost	GTX 650 Ti
Chip	GK106	GK106	GK106	GK106
Process	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	2.54 Billion	2.54 billion	2.54 billion	2.54 Billion
GPU clock	980 MHz	1'020 MHz	980 MHz	925 MHz
GPU Boost clock	1'033 MHz	1'085 MHz	1'033 MHz	N/A
Memory	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048/1'024 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz)	1'350 MHz (5'400 MHz)
Memory interface	192 Bit	192 Bit	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory bandwidth	144'200 MB/s	144'200 MB/s	144'200 MB/s	86'400 MB/s
TMUs	80	64	64	64
Shader Cores	960 (5 SMX)	768 (4 SMX)	768 (4 SMX)	768 (4 SMX)
ROPs	24 ROP	16 ROP	16 ROP	16 ROP
Maximum board power	140 Watt	XXX Watt	140 Watt	110 Watt
PCB Type	Reference Design	Custom Design	Reference Design	Reference Design
Size (PCB - Total)	17.2 - 24.0 cm	19.0 - 21.2 cm		PCIe16x
Cooler	Reference Design	DirectCU II	Reference Design	Reference Design
MSRP	$229	$XXX	$169	$149

As mentioned previously, this card from ASUS makes use of the custom PCB. ASUS engineers reworked the circuitry and the power design but didn't go too far. In this case you don't find a digital power design nor more phases. The only major changes apart from the PCB design itself are the use of super alloy components and different but still cost effective voltage controller. Therefore you get an analogue power design with five phases, where the GPU gets four phases and the memory gets one phase.
The voltage regulation chip used for the GPU is a RT8867A from Richtek Technology. On the memory power design side you find an APW7165A from ANPEC Electronics.



ASUS ships the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost with a smaller and cheaper version of the dual slot DirectCU II cooler. This one comes with two heatpipes, that feature 6 millimeter diameter. Both heatpipes establish direct contact via the direct touch technology. Furthermore there are two 75 millimeter fans and no aluminium fins. The latter explain itself when you look at the heatsink, which has been made from aluminium entirely. Very cheap but in our test it proved to be very good - so why not.
Although this cooler is a smaller version, it is longer than the card's PCB by 2.4cm lenghtwise, which ends up with a total card lenght of 21.50 centimeter. Also because of the two heatpipes the cooler is 0.8 centimeter higher.



The memory chips used are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ2H24AFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz effective).

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